Prevention science is a framework for research focused on preventing and/or mitigating behavioral and health challenges and increasing resiliency. The prevention science work at FPG draws from a diverse range of disciplines—including the behavioral, social, psychological, and neuro sciences—to understand the origins of social problems at the individual, community, and societal levels. Prevention strategies focus on ways to intervene before a problem emerges or worsens, avoiding adverse outcomes and their costs, and enhancing conditions conducive to healthy child and adolescent development, good mental and physical health, and strong families and communities.
Featured FPG News Story
A recent study conducted by the Equity Research Action Coalition at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the Gallup Center on Black Voices found a possible link between social connections and Black parents’ ability to cope with racism and discrimination.
Featured Project
The Impact Center at FPG's Implementation Capacity for Triple P (ICTP) projects are currently supporting the scale-up and expansion of Triple P System of Interventions in North and South Carolina. The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program system of interventions offers evidence-based parenting and family support strategies designed to reach all families for community-wide impact.
Featured Person
Rebecca Hebner Roppolo, MPH, is an implementation specialist with Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead of the Quality and Outcome Monitoring for Improvement Core for The Impact Center at FPG. Rebecca's work includes leadership of the quality and outcome monitoring for active implementation and scale-up of evidence-based prevention/well-being strategies in communities and state, regional, and national service systems.
